Austin Reaves | Ep 192 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME BASKETBALL

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Out here in the Blue Wires studio at the Beautiful Wind Hotel.

Beautiful in a minute, Man, my brother were back in the mix. We got a good little guest here today.

Man, I've been a big fan of this guy. Uh, you know, got a chance to know him briefly through d M and kind of talking back and forth. But he was gracious enough to bless us what his time for He heads back home today.

Welcome to the show.

Austin Reeves New bag is what they calling him back home now. Man, crazy run you guys thirteenth at one point during the season, you guys make some moves at the deadline. You guys make a run all the way to the Western Conference finals. You were one of the most consistent performers throughout the season, averaged seventeen points a game in the playoffs. Talk to us just about kind of the marathon of the season where you guys ended up.

Yeah, I mean it was a long season.

Like you said, we were thirteenth and you no, not much you know upside to look forward to. But then at the trade deadline, made some you know, moves and you know, really just become a team. And that was really the main thing. Is we got closer on and off the court, and it really just carried over to the court. Everybody really just wanted to win, and that was it.

How did that chemistry because he and I were joined in two thousand and seven when we made a mid season trade, we made a you know, a crazy run, made NBA history, But we were literally on and off the court, smoking, watching film, kicking it.

Now, you don't have to tell us what you were doing that.

How How was it tough to get kind of that chemistry with you got four new guys that like were in rotation. How did that chemistry developing and and how did it help?

Along the way?

There was a lot of bouret played.

I'm sure you'll know about that, but now it was playing rides on the way home, was you know, more active. Really just getting to know one another, being able to trust one another was really the main thing, and it just, like I said, carried over to the court.

Avid Golfer, you're as soon as you leave here, you're back home for a golf event. When did golf come into your life?

I played in high school really just to get out of school.

I hated school, but I started taking a serious probably my freshman or sophomore year at college. I really just fell in love with it. It was away for me to get away from basketball.

With your handicap, I'm scratch. Oh, that means he's good. That means he's right there, handicap. You know what I'm saying.

As much as I play, I should be pretty Yeah.

I mean that means that means he's even so. And you the lower the minus is better if you have the plus, you don't want the plus. This is the one sport you don't want pluses in sure the contract obviously first and foremost. Congratulations Jack will touch on kind of your journey to get here, but you know you, you started turning a lot of heads during the season. Ended up resigning with the Lakers, which I thought was

I really wanted to be in La the whole time.

There was a couple uh situations that were close, but like I said, I really wanted to be in La. La feels like home to me, So that's really where I wanted to be.

Well, give us maybe two teams. You possibly thought about.

UH Houston before the thread and then San Antonio.

Okay, I forgot what I was gonna ask. I tell people all the time, you know, I was fortunate enough to play for the Lakers, Clippers, u c l A winning championship with the Golden State Wars. But I tell people, there's nothing like being a Laker. You haven't necessarily experienced the other side because you've only been with the Lakers. But what has it been like?

And we laugh and joke.

I mean, because the Lakers don't even get too many white guys that can come through and who you know what I mean?

So like you're a savior, Like they love you NBA, you know what I'm saying. But they love you out there.

And to be a Laker with that Laker on your chest, I mean, that's a worldwide brand.

What is that? What has that been like for you?

Obviously you've been able to exceed, you know, excel on the court, So what has life off the court been like for you?

I mean, it's been a lot of fun.

Like you said, uh, Lakers are arguably the best organization in all the sports and I was a huge Kobe fan growing up, so I watched y'all play, you know, and not really always wanted to, you know, be a part of that. And for that to just come, you know, full circle and be there, I mean, it just means a lot and off the court, you know, Like I said, I play a lot of golf, so it's good golf weather.

Yeah, real quick, quick story before you get to your shit, jack. So I hit Austin. Man, it was about three months ago. I even think it was during the playoffs, and Shae Obriant, who's Kobe's sister, hit me up and said that her son is Austin is their favorite player.

And Shane was like, you know, Austin was like, nah, I don't know him. Please, it's you know, it's my son's birthday. I'm like shit.

I was like, my bad, bro, it's the playoffs. I know you're focused, but Kobe's nephew loves you, and I was all cool. Austin sent h my birthday message and I sent it to the Shae and her son broke down in tears, and I sent it back to him to him, like, bro, that sit meant a lot. So Shane wanted me to personally thank you for sure that birthday message.

For sure, dope. I was drafted second to the last pick. What pick you win, Matt? I was forty three. Yeah, I was second to the last pick in the draft.

You two years ago, you was the same in the same city, undrafted, trying to get a job.

Now you're sitting here with a bag. How you feel feels great?

H Like I said, everything comes full circle and all I needed was opportunity and I knew that. I knew what I was capable of doing, you know, the skill set, IQ and stuff like that. So it was just about, you know, my agency put me in a good position to you know, have all of that. We could have got drafted forty second to Detroit, but kind of declined that to kind of put me in LA for a better spot.

So I heard about that, but break that down. Because I heard about that, I didn't know if that was real. So I heard there were teams that wanted to draft you, and you kind of told them, respectfully, we kind of have a plan. So tell us about that plan of betting on yourself and also your agency here. So if you want to shout them out, feel free to do that.

My dogs AMR agency for me, the best there is.

But yeah, talk to us about that game plan because I read that, I didn't know if that was a true story. So you you know, you kind of respectfully passed on a few teams because you guys had a game plan. Explain what that game plan was.

Yeah, So basically we tiered teams, you know, best fit for me, and LA was I think two on the list at the time. Milwaukee might have been one, but they were tier one, and I think Detroit called.

That should be on nobody's tier.

Yeah, if we're being honest, he said, no, No, maybe not being honest here, but that's always the show.

Yeah, No, it was. It was, like I said, really.

Trying to put me in a position to you know, be able to get a Roger spot. We knew that there was a high interest for a two ways, so we didn't really have to press. And that's what everything in the draft would have been from forty two and on would have been basically a two way agreement. So we didn't have to press and I didn't really have to hear my name called either. I mean, obviously I wanted to, but it was all about you know, playing the long game.

I had my name called in my garage at the crib, I was at the TV in the garage, everybody was just standing behind. I knew I was getting picked already because they only had one They had one pick in the draft and they told me they was gonna draft me. But just that feeling what experienced that for sure? We all use different things from motivation, right, we all whe we come from. You know, me and matt I upbringing. I know his upbringing just as well as mine. Different

Yeah, I mean, I think I told Reggie.

The first day I went for pre draft, he was like, why you want to make it like and obviously I love basketball, but you know I wanted to tell everybody fuck off.

God damn right that you know I could do it, and that was really it.

I mean, I love basketball I love you know, the skill of the game, the you know, you never can perfect it. Uh so you always find something to get better at. But at the end of the day, I wanted to look back and really just you know, tell everybody fuck off.

I love it.

I got my championship, I got my championship ring fitted to my middle finger.

Just for that's tough. I can hopefully I get there.

I could dig it.

It can get a lot of outside noise can get to you at times though. You know, I've been suspended thirty games. I've been a lot of incidents where it wasn't really me, you know, it was me coming to the aid of my teammates and I had to deal with the flag.

Sometimes the noise can't get to you because you are human.

You know, if anybody in the NBA say the noise never got to them, they line, I don't care who you are, because we listen and we want people to like because we want our fans to support us.

How you dealing with that?

Uh yeah, I mean, like you said, you you hear everything. I mean, it's a it's a world of social media now and everybody's.

On it, everybody opinion.

I only have Instagram. I don't have Twitter, so I don't be scrolling on Twitter.

But it's really you know, if I can go, if I can look back and be like I did what I was supposed to do, good or bad. You know, I can suck up many times and it really don't matter. But if I put in the work and play the right way, I can live with that.

Thanks anybody you mud of your game after growing up.

Uh, Like I said, I was a huge Kobe fan, but of course I wasn't trying to be Kobe.

Uh.

But you know, I named like, you know, Joe Ingles, like someone that can do a little bit of everything, uh, unselfish, wants to win, super competitor. So that's the one that I kind of just throw out there because everybody names you know, high high level guys, right.

I like Joe Joe.

Joe came to us his rookie year, but I think he's rookie with the Clippers. He was like twenty six, twenty seven. I literally just saw him.

The other day.

But great dude, right career late at his own pace, because shoot that bitch. So obviously we touched on the roller coaster of a season last year was but I want to walk you through a few different areas and you break it down for us, the moment leading up to Lebron breaking the scoring record and him actually doing it, what was that like around the team locker room, him that whole energy.

Like, oh, it was special to be a part of. I mean for obvious reasons. You know, you're playing with the guy that you know has the most points ever and you know people argue to him that he's not a good score so for him to uh do that, and then for me to just be in the building. I was coming back from injury, so I wasn't I didn't play much that game, but just to experience that and his mood every day was you know, he was

Straight up Russell Westbrook someone who kind of gets a bad rep from the outside, but I always hear the teammates really appreciate and respect what he's got going on. What was it like playing with Russ before he got moved.

Yeah, he's one of the best teammates I've ever had. As a person, you know, you can't get much better. I got COVID. Uh, like December of my rookie year in Minnesota. I was stuck in Minnesota for like seven days, so it's rough. But uh, you know he reached out like three or four times, asked him I need anything, offered to send me stuff, whatever I needed. So as

It's crazy. Anthony Davis ugly one of the most talented players this game has ever seen. Worst boxes you've ever seen. He had been long downs him on from Street Fighter. Yeah, fella, Uh, what's it like playing with him?

I mean some guy, I mean when he wants can be the best player in the world. Do you extremely talented talk to us about Anthony Davis?

Uh?

You know, he's obviously a good person to have on your team, especially defensively, I don't think he gets enough credit for you know, what he does for us as guards. Like knowing you know you have him as a rent protector, you can be you know, more physical, like more aggressive. You can kind of shoot pass and get the lanes and know if they get in the paint then it's

There's really nothing he can't do.

Just imagine somebody I feel in San Antonio when I had yeah that's nice.

As you should I have prime Dwight Howard and yeah, incredible, But the dog I like what you touched, I don't. I don't think he gets enough credit on the defensive end either because he's someone out on the canrim protect.

But he can switch out and maintain a guard. I mean he did in the playoffs with stats.

I mean, to stay in front of Steph ONNGR fuck old Steph is is not easy and for him to get lost in a move and still recover and either change a shot or block a shot. At his size, uh is absolutely incredible, so happy that he kind of found his rhythm and looking forward to what next season gives him. Obviously, season didn't end. I would say personally say that you guys had a good season considering where

Yeah, it obviously suck.

Yeah, but I mean if you look back, we really had an opportunity to win every game. Game one was you know, up in the air because they was up like twenty and we you know, we made a run with like five minutes left and actually had an opportunity. But you know, two, three, and four were very winnable, and you know, one thing goes, you know, your way here and there. You know, we could you know, be celebrating,

We have the biggest Laker fan back here in the corner.

I made sure I watched every He came to my house every single game, so I could see him cry laugh. He was telling me what he was gonna do with your whole roster during the season. After the season, but uh, it was fun.

We're gonna struggle this year. I don't even catch I mean, because they lost a whole bunch of key players. Oh, Jeff Green, all the guys they used Brown, It lost all those key guys.

That's when they got a couple of good ones though they picked up. You got a team.

When you got a chemistry like that, you just keep that ship together and try it again. If it don't work two times in a row, then you break it up.

They didn't have the money to give some of them. They should have.

Figured that ship out, because it's gonna be another ninety year until they win it.

No, I think they're gonna be they got I forgot it, forgot remember, yeah, you did say it.

I'm gonna give it to you. Uh, going ahead to have with Steph.

What was that like, it's it's honestly hell.

Still, I'm not gonna lie to you.

I mean the way he moves without the ball is the worst part.

Yeah, but just the way he moves without the ball, the way I mean, it's honestly their system too, it fits him to perfection. Uh, you know, you can't, you literally can't ever relax. And I remember Game one and two chasing him play around and I couldn't make a shot.

Everybody's looking at me like why I can make a shot. I'm like, he got no legs.

But yeah, no, his uh, you know, his approach to the game too, is as special. Just the way that he, you know, sees the game and the way he goes about the game. It was a lot of fun to play them. Obviously happy we won, Yeah, but nah, he's it's hell to guard him next season.

First and foremost, shut out Rob Polinka, and he did a great job of just attacking free agency. He went out and signed the three main guys he wanted to re sign, which was you, uh, d Lo and Hachimura, and then went out and got quality pieces, gave Vincent uh to name a few guys, Uh, excited obviously about this upcoming season and what you guys have been able to put together in this offseason.

Yeah for sure, Like you said, bring back basically our whole core. And I went to the Western Conference finals and like you said, you know, plug guys in around that. Uh like like game that you know, just went to the finals, you know, super competitor. But like you said, I think we we got better and at the same

Oh, y'all just get in the training camp together. Yeah for sure.

Yeah, we got a lot of good pieces, a lot of teams in the off season. Get together at some point early midsummer. Have you guys talked about getting together before preseason starts yet.

Uh.

I mean Brian usually does his mini camp I think the weekend before uh training camp starts.

So we've done that the last two years.

I haven't heard anything about it yet, but we hadn't hear my rookie year and then San Diego my second year.

Talk to us just about him, not the player, the person.

He acts like a damn kid. He acts like he's like eighteen.

Uh.

You know, I never really see him in a bad mood, always joking, laughing, Uh, you know, having a good time. And for someone that you know, you put on a pedestal because he's done what he's done for him to just be so personable, right, you could talk to him about anything.

You can have good.

Conversations with him. You could joke around, like I said, you know, it's like I said, his best. The best thing about him is he comes to work every day happy.

Who's the most saltiest gambler on the team?

Me, you were pitching pennies before money? Yeah, you could ask him a little bit. Now, get y'all can take that twenty thousand.

Fuck that.

That game is dangerous.

Yeah.

A big part of your offseason this year is FEBA. Congratulations on making that roster. I got a chance to see the trophy the other day. They brought it out to this golf tournament I was playing in. But tell me about that kind of opportunity. You think back two years ago, you're undrafted, struggling to find a spot land with the Lakers, make your own name, get paid.

Now you're playing FEBA basketball, Like, what does that mean to you?

It means a lot, just to you know, play for you know, our country is like I said, it means a lot. And you know, I think we've put together a team that's a team Like I feel like we got guys, you know, obviously guys that are real high level, and then you got guys that you know, kind of plug and play in there too.

So I'm super excited for it.

You know.

I want to go, you know, learn as much as I can from all these guys, and yeah, hopefully go win. It's out here, right, Yeah, we come out here in August second, and then I think we travel after that, like August eighth.

That's one experience that everybody, a lot of basketball players can't say that they have.

Yeah, their national team. Big changes in the rules this year. One of them is an in season tournament and thoughts on that nd season tournament.

I haven't really thought about it much.

I mean, what are the I don't know about it. I don't even know about it. Top teams. I think it's good to get each player get fifty seven Yeah, uh, five hundred thousand for the winning team. Oh, well over every player. Yeah, I played. It's five hundred grand just the winning team, right, Yeah, it's tiered. Okay, I'll come back to Uh, I'll come back and catch me at ten days. Doesn't determine have anything to do with the outcoming the end of the season. My point? Does it

I think they're gonna get this season determined, being able to come to Vegas for the champions I think they're gonna play more.

Games, come on a lot.

But a lot of people said that about the playing, and I love the play. Even bron said he didn't like to play in a couple of years ago, and the play and saved his ass this year.

So I like the playing.

I'm eager to see now this turns out to more changes that I liked flopping. The flopping Now you get assessed it's not a it's not a real t, but like a fake tea. I guess it doesn't count towards your foul. You just get free throw into the ball back and then challenge because you know how fucking bad these rests are. So if you get your first challenge, right, you get your second challenge. So those are a couple things that they do in the mix.

I mean finally would yeah, yeah, it's official now. It was a long time job and we is in the league.

Bro.

Try to tell you, like if if you needed to medicate, man, you had to be on your p's and Q. Let me tell you you have to know how to move you Someone in Jack I think touched on it. Just your your roller coaster, your journey, and speak to those younger players out there or even guys, your aides. That just about believing in yourself and betting on yourself and and and continuing to hone your craft and and and blocking everything out.

Yeah I mean for me, uh no, most of it was mental for me.

Uh just be able to know the game at a high level, because I think if you you know the game at a high level. There's always a place for you. You can play kind of anywhere, and then also just stay in the gym. There's a lot of distractions, as everybody knows, but you know you can you can get away from those for what ten years?

You know, I think, what's the what's the average three years?

Okay, So yeah, anyways, if you have a great career and have ten years and you just get away from all that, you got a lot of time, after a lot of money to you know, do whatever you want after that. So it's really about just locking in for you know, kind of this short period of time, because you know, I hear all the time that it goes fast, and you know, even though last year felt like forever, right, you know, I'm going into my third year and it

You spoke to it earlier being a Kobe guy, and it even poked some fun meme whise back of Lebron back in the day, because you are a Kobe guy.

Favorite Kobe memory.

For me it was probably his last game. I remember I was watching it in my brother's room.

Actually he was off of college and it was, you know, for two hours behind in Arkansas, so it was probably like eleven thirty Towards the end of the game, I'm up screaming, jumping like I'm lit, and my mom opens.

The door and she's like, is everything okay. I was like, get the hell out of here, like, go go back to bed, like this is real, this is real. But yeah, like you said, the meme that I posted of Kobe about Brian.

Yeah, no, like you know what about that?

Nah?

I called him when I first seen it. We were in New Orleans and it was right after the game.

I don't think he or I played, and I got on my phone after the game after coaches on talking was the first thing I seen.

I was like, fuck.

I was like, I was like, Bron was over there at this locker. I was like, Brian, come here, man, he comes over. I was like, look, I was a Kobe fan. I was shipping on your twenty twelve dis claim on you real quick, but this is this, you've seen this and he was like nah, he just started laughing.

So so he ain't like that. Like I have him third on my list and people just make it seem like I hate him. I mean, you know what I'm saying.

But when I when we played in the Big Three game, I slid way across the court going football. Brun got up and ran all the way across. He wasn't even playing to help me up off the floor. So he don't think, he don't think like he see through all that ship, you know what I'm saying. So I guarantee you any people have saw it, he know you as a person, he wouldn't have took it the wrong.

Yeah, for sure.

But I just wanted to be the first. You said you got him in three? Who I've got MJ one, Kobe two.

Ye.

The significance of being the starting two guard for the Lakers, does that ever cross your mind? Obviously being a huge fan of Koping what he was able to do for this franchise.

Yeah, I mean I tried not to think about it.

Uh. But at the same time, like I've said, like I mean, being in La is you know, like it's it's different. The fans are different, and they you know, they're expected to win every year regardless of what the roster looks like. They want to win a championship. So you know, it means a lot to me. And I take it serious to you know, go out every night and like I said earlier, regardless.

You know good bad in the middle.

If I go play you know the way that you know I've always played, and uh, you know, give it everything I had, then you know I can go sleep at night.

One and raised in Newark, Arkansas.

Form I grew up watching the Arkansas Razorbacks with Scottie Thurman, Carles Wives and.

All those guys.

They were one of the best kind of basketball teams you've ever seen. What was the any life lessons? How was it growing up in Arkansas?

I mean it was a lot of fun for me.

Thousand people.

Thousand people lived on three hundred acres, so you could go a whole day without seeing anybody.

Which I like, I mean, I can go be to myself. But it really taught me, you know, work ethic.

Honestly, My brother used to drag me to the gym like my seventh grade year because I wasn't that interested, and he would always just preach.

To me like you got to do more.

Like you're from you know, this area where you're not going to get you know much, you know, publicity, you know, recognition, So you got to be in the gym more. You gotta be you know, a lot better than that that guy that they're looking at because you know he's, you know, playing AU. I only played one year AU, so that was it was. It taught me really how to you know, put my nose down and just work.

Was baseball your first love? Yeah? What position? Short stop? Nice?

I don't know if I'm nice. I used to be all right, but I don't know about it anymore.

Three state championships, scoring seventy three points in the game. Okay, was that your moment in high school?

Uh?

Yeah?

Other than winning uh we all want two with my brother and then won my senior year. Probably the best moment was winning at my freshman year. Nobody thought we had any chance of winning that. We actually played elite in the finals. He was a freshman, I was a freshman, and let's say he had had a lot better game than me.

But we won.

So that's all that matters.

Charge charge going the chances to push off? Did you fly right there? Did you fly?

Probably?

You might have not even mentioned. You looked like eighty seven pounds right there, might.

Was like five nine.

Maybe that's crazy.

You've mentioned your brother, did he get a chance to go on and play college ball, or he's something that looked up to a lot when you were younger.

Yeah, for sure.

Uh and you know he's probably the main one I give, you know, mostly credit to for me being in the position that I am now.

Uh, he actually plays over in Germany.

Now he played twenty seven, about to be twenty eight and you're twenty. Yeah, so he I mean, he loves the game, so yeah, shout out what's his name, Spencer Reeves?

Shout out Spence Spencer Reeves? Sub home slice. What's your opinion on the Leaks Monks season? Yet?

I thought it was great and I think even when he signed it was two summers ago. Last summer, I thought that they got him on a steal.

Honestly. Uh, you know, his skill and his ability to score the ball is is different.

He's one of the you know, few people that I would say they can't really get a bucket at any facet, you know, mid range three at the rim Athletic.

Yeah, that's the crazy working for the Kings chance to see. I was surprised one on his playmaking and then his ability to jump off.

He gets off the floor so quick. I always joke with him like, you know, you don't even look at athletic. But and then I always told him, and he you know, he had go to the rim and lay something up. I was like, man, if I was that athletic, I would never shoot a lay up. But yeah, no, I think you know, him and dr and being back together, I think that gave him another you know, comfort level, just being by someone that he's played with.

Coming out of Arkansas, you know, with small cities, you know, you think that's town right to town. Yeah, a space and all the three acres.

Yeah, coming out of there, you know, you you get you getting ready to experience different things. Was it a culture shock when you first hit LA And what's what's the first big person? Like, what's one thing you wanted to buy? When you know you're finna get into some chibata? Oh stupid?

It was.

It was different.

Obviously l A traffic sucks. It's the worst thing about l A. But you know, I stay at the crib golf and I'm at the gym.

That's really it. I ain't really splurged on anything. There's not really there's.

Not really anything I need though, Yeah, I bought some new golf clubs and ain't got fitted, so.

They should have gave you those, all right, just recently signed a seven figure deal.

I don't want to butcher the company's name. How do you say it? Rigor you got the aar ones? That's cold, that's a cold name.

Right again, when you think Big Picture touched on it two years ago, you were sitting here trying to figure out what life was about. Now you're going in with the fresh contract in your own shoe coming like going right here?

Yeah yeah, but uh, like you said, you know, there's multiple times I'm sitting there by myself.

I might be playing the game aim or something, and I'm just like, this ship can't be real, right.

I think there's mid twenties guys in the league that got their own shooting.

For me to be one of them is you know, special. And you know I never take that for granted.

You know, it was a point where only guys that were the faces of their teams say getting shoes, man, So that's dope. Congrats bro, you guys. You guys tried to do a shoe run one time, didn't you. Yeah, so we talked about that. It didn't last long. I had a shoe called protege a man Al Harrington.

Uh.

The sad part about it was, I'm pretty sure your shoes won't do these things that my shoes were doing.

But every move I made at the time out.

You can just look at the court and all those black marks where I was without my spot and defense and told everything, and.

One time if the shoe kept his soul, well I was getting to that. I mean, the court did well.

You know, I've definitely used three pair of shoes in one game because you know, I might leave my soul at half court.

You know, I might shoot a free throw, the tongue might be off. You know, you never know what these shoes. And it didn't last. But I guarantee you issues doing that.

The doing that you had to try it though.

You make some good money push. It was short lived, though. Have you done your China tour yet? Have not?

That was actually going to be in August, but the fever stuff might try to fit it in right at the end of the fever stuff in the training camp.

So what so what's break from the end of fever to I guess probably bronze camp will be coming right before yours.

It's probably like weeks really like that.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess it depends on how we do fever wise. I don't really know how that works, but I would say I think I seemed like the end of it's like the tenth Bro.

I know you young, and I know you work on your game, and I know you dedicated to but get your rest too, bro, get yours.

I definitely do that.

We heard a rumor, and we don't like to start troubles here, but we heard something about Taylor Swift meet you somewhere and all that.

Tell you what. I didn't know if it was a rumor, but I was like all I said, hell yeah, I.

Said, I heard he was riding down the street and Taylor pull up on the side and she's saying He's like she hopped out and got him with him and.

They just pulled out. I was, you get a chance to meet her?

I've never met her.

Okay, it was all bullshit, No, all bullshit.

It was.

I don't know.

I ain't never talked I ain't never talked to her.

Because I see, I said, it's like it was my homemie.

I was like, hell yeah, yeah, bro, we was in a bar in Arkansas.

That's crazy. I believe this ship too. You I didn't hear his story. I heard I heard the bar, right, I heard the bar at Arkansas? Not true? Ship? Are you interested?

I stay out the media?

There you know.

There you go. He's learning his l a media training. Don't fall from that ship. Back in the day when I when I was young, and I can't you throw a celebrity? Yeah, what's she?

Give me a number, say my number one half. I'm looking for you back in the day. Yeah, right now to ya Regina.

All right, man, we appreciate your time. We got quick hitters. First thing to come to mind, let us know. First thing you do in the morning, last.

Thing you do before you go to bed, obviously brush my teeth. Okay, yeah, brush my teeth again.

I don't say because you're gonna play with a lot of players, you gonna be like bro. I'm telling there's gonna be a lot of players that got that. Kanye West.

I used to play with some players that used to get in the shower and out before the water hitter.

There's definitely something like that that's hard.

And then just throw a bunch of colonna like Nigga. I don't give that some four hundred dollars clone. I can still smell you.

Taking out the water. That's crazy. Top five shooting guards of all time? Your top five?

My top five? M J Kobe uhh, this is tough. Probably d Wade.

Is James Hardener two one, James Harden just because it's skilled, right, And then I actually really like Brandon Roy.

That's me.

I know the problem.

We know the code fifty two piece.

Phoenix really me, Grant Hill, Jason Richardson, y'all get a bucket.

Favorite meme of yourself?

Uh probably the one with Brin Okay.

Yeah, yeah, what did you say? For those who didn't see it?

So we had a time out.

Yeah, we had a time out with like a minute forty five left up like eighteen and you know, at that point games over. I didn't know why we were still in the game, and coach was drawing something up, and you know, you know how time I saw nobody was really listening. And I asked a lot of questions that year, So I asked coaches. I was walking on the court.

I was like, I'm not.

Doing anything, like I'm on the left wing, basically chilling.

He was like, yeah, A D.

Brown and Rush were supposed to run some three man action and I walked on the court and I was bron the same thing.

I'm like, I'm just chilling right. He was like, Nah, you're going here here, and like kept going.

I don't know if he was fucking with me for being serious, to be honest, but I actually make that face a lot when I'm kind of, you know, confused, but at the same time, like I would like to think, I'm not confused a lot, so I kind of know what's going on.

So I was like, I don't know if that's true.

But it's crazy. That is crazy. That is crazy.

Yeah, that's I ain't see that one for like two days though my brother. My brother actually sent it to me. That was after I think the game, like one or two of Denver Serious.

Have you ever seen wind Crash Brother Artists. I painted a picture for.

You that's actually funny.

A ship.

You have that mother fucking hogs but he had he had him and everything.

Remember oh ship was going through it there.

With three artists on your summer time rotation.

Probably Baby Dirt and.

Doug album crazy alb is crazy, know.

He kind of reminds me of a little bit with a little less country accident Ja Jason Williams, no question.

Yeah, we gotta come. We gotta come up with him.

Let him know, let him corrupt you though, because that right there is burns but a little bit, especially because Jay Will came in with this little come over to remember the white boys. Jay Will came in with the comb over to.

He was you got to get a pair of your shoes with the white chocolate two point oh, they got to the class. Got to do Will, No not, I'm with j Will.

Assuming you've been to Las Vegas, do you have any uh that you can share with us, any fun stuff that happened out here to you?

They were probably Bron's first or our first mini camp out here.

Uh, it was my rookie year. And I remember I gott in a sprinter with it. I think it was me, Bron, Russ Mellow, and a D I don't know why the hell I was in there.

I was still need some color. I was the other color. I was still I was still on my two head.

Uh, I was still on my two ad at the time, and you know, trying to get get a roster spot. And I remember we were walking in somewhere and Bron looked at me, asked me if if I heard of some band. I was like nah, and then he was like, you know who the Beatles are? I was like yeah, he was like, we're the Beatles. I was like, ship we walk in you know everybody obviously you know it

Really is every day five dinner guests did are alive.

That's tough.

We talk about this stuff on the plane though. I think you got to go to Jesus at one Thank you Jesus.

Hey soon. I would say, Kobe, you forget a chance to meet him? No, I never.

I'm I'm really a sports head, so probably Tiger shooters, golf fan.

He said, he don't even want to talk about golf though. Talk you want about the ship next to PGA pimping man.

Honestly, probably my grandfather passed away six seven years ago.

And then last spot you're given the man that's tough. Uh stop, No, probably I mean probably Drake.

Right, Okay, Phusy not a bad table. If you could see one guest on our show, who would it be? But you have to help us get your answer on our show.

Y'all had d lo mm hmm. That's my god. Good one, Yeah, A good one. Yeah, because I want to ask him about the whole snitch you know, you know me, I wanted to know I had I was.

I was very vocal about that during that time. You know what I'm saying, that's one thing. One thing about it. Niggas with cheese don't like rats, So you need talk about that. You want to clear the air on that. Yeah, I just wanted to, you know, clear his name. You know what I'm saying, gott this muddle your name. I well, man, that's a wrap, Austin Reeves. We appreciate your time, man, best.

Best the Lucky Fever, best of luck this upcoming season with the Lakers, all that big Bread, Showtime Basketball YouTube.

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